Quotes about Fragility
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Leaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can't do without your fellow humans, and that, when you're with them, they make you sick.
- Aldous Huxley
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
- George Eliot
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.
- Jean Baptiste Massillon
Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood—she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The doctors told me' -- her voice sang on a confidential note-- 'that if any man alive had done the consistent drinking that I have, he would have been physically shattered, my dead, and in his grave--long in his grave.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
naked souls are poor things ever
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.
- DL Moody
I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.
- Alice Hoffman
A glass breaking on its own portended death.
- Alice Hoffman
The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.
- Joe Biden